Scalable storage for QEMU/KVM

While reading up on various scalable file systems I came across the sheepdog project. For those new to sheepdog, their website describes it as:

“Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for QEMU/KVM. It provides highly available block level storage volumes that can be attached to QEMU/KVM virtual machines. Sheepdog scales to several hundreds nodes, and supports advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and thin provisioning.”

This looks really cool, and I’m hoping to play around with it this weekend. Curious what experiences my readers have had with it?

3 Comments

Pascal Gauthier on July 13th, 2012

Seem nice indeed…

fcharlier on July 13th, 2012

Hi,

I had the occasion to play with Sheepdog & Ceph/RBD block storage for KVM a few months ago (december 2011). At the time, Ceph/RBD seemed more mature than Sheepdog, but I did not have the occasion to try again recently.

In addition, Ceph also has an Amazon S3 compatible API to store other data, don’t know if Sheepdog has such features.